Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:41 AM
Dennis Kennedy got me thinking the day when I read his post, Has Blogging Peaked?, which was his own reaction to a post from Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion in which Mr. Rubel suggests blogging has peaked, As Daily Postings Slide, Blogging Peaks.
Since the majority of the people I know still don't really understand what a weblog is (let alone have one), and an even larger majority don't yet use a feed reader, I find speculation that blogging has already peaked to be a little questionable. Especially if we narrow our focus to legal-oriented weblogs and the blawgosphere.
I think sometimes that the techies among us get so far out ahead of the rest of the masses that they lose sight of just how far behind most of us are behind their early adoption.
In any case, I thought I would take this opportunity to share some general statistics about our little slice of the larger blogosphere, the blawgosphere:
- Blawg is currently tracking approximately 1500 legal-oriented weblogs.
- Approximately 66% of these 1500 have published new posts within the last 60 days.
- For a 64 day time period ending April 5, 2007, the 1500 blawgs combined for around 43,278 total posts.
- The blawgosphere in total generates approximately 677 posts per day on average.
- Weekdays are more active posting days than weekends.
- While the statistics are not yet complete, more anecdotal evidence (based on my experience over the last 4 years) leads me to believe that new blawgs are coming online almost every day somewhere in the world (again with weekends being lighter than weekdays).
The above statistics are drawn from an early sample of data, so I don't consider them totally complete. However, for now, they do give you an sense of the size and breadth of the growing blawgosphere. And, yes, regardless of what the larger blogosphere is doing, I believe the blawgosphere is growing.